Foretravel Owners' Forum For owners and Fans of Foretravel Motorcoaches September 16, 2025 ...

Adding your location would help.

Al

I know the owner is located in the Corpus Christie area of TX.  We met one day last January for a long lunch, a very amazing guy.

when I was at MOT for service they has sold 10  or 12 coaches that month and not many of them made the website either.  It was early in the month too. I arrived about July 7th.

When we were buyers, not lookers, we worked with Mel Cordray at MOT...

So how do those of us who do not yet own an FT found out about those coaches that do not make the website? We're still a ways away from making a purchase, but it would be nice to be armed with the information. Do we ask to be put on an e-mail list so we're alerted whenever a "new" coach comes on the lot they think we'd be interested in? (Perhaps I answered my own question. )

To think they can do that for evey one is maybe impossible.  If you are years from purchase, what is going to be offered for sale tomorrow is not going to mater much.  Watch what comes around on their site, and go see one, to see if you are even chasing the correct brand.  Being so far from purchasing would frustrate me perhaps more than help, as I see the "perfect" coach show up, when I can not do anything.

My coach became available, I was ready to step up.  We saw ours while traveling, and made the deal with the seller as he traded it in at FOT a week later on his visit.  I bought the new coach, the day after we got the call, and thus become a two Foretravel owner.  After seeing and buying the coach at FOT, I stopped by to see Mel, he knew I had captured the U295 when MOT did not have a deal for my seller.  We had found our gem, and stepped up in 24 hours.  I was really sorry that he was not the salesman on the deal, and that MOT was not involved, after all the work Mel had done to help us.

Watching the market is good and frustrating, but grabbing the right coach is timing and luck.  We were lucky to be in the RV park in the Hill Country on vacation, to first see, tour, leave a card contact.  Then get the call about a coach that was "not for sale this year" on a Tuesday, and being offered it on Sat. when they fell in love with a new Foretravel in NAC.

This started June 26th and I should be picking it up in a little over a week.

I appreciate all of the tips and advice being offered here. To follow up on the suggestion to get on MOTs mailing list and what I presume might be a subsequent e-mail from someone at MOT, how much information do you give them, if any? Do you, for instance tell them what model year range you are interested in or budget or length, etc? Or do you simply ask to receive the weekly e-mails and wait to see if a coach comes along that you're interested in (looking elsewhere ar the same time, no doubt)?

Okay, one last (I think) question. Since we're probably still a couple of years away from buying, at what point would you suggest contacting these folks? Realistically, based on my wife's projections and comfort level, we're about two and a half years out from any purchase. If the right coach were to come along that were a sizable amount less than our budget, we might push it up six months or so.

Ed... we also found our FT on craigslist and also had to scramble around to get the bucks. Congratulations!!! If you've been on the forum for a while you know that there is never an end to the upgrades, replacements, lubrications and repairs. But you won't regret it!

Craig